The alpha cat in our house will do this 3-4x a week … 1/ jump up to top of tall dresser 2/ open top dresser drawer 3/ find socks, take one out 4/ drop sock present(s) by our bed

My critique of psychoanalysis isn’t that the model is “wrong” at all … just that one facet “isn’t always right” That element is the primacy of reflective separation … “containment” & “mentalizing” functions that make clarity & space in swells of affect & boundary permeability

Projection is not just a thought … it’s an #embodied relocation of affect that reorganizes perception, behavior & relational stance Emotions have interpersonal fluid dynamics

Projection is not just a thought … it’s an #embodied relocation of affect that reorganizes perception, behavior & relational stance Emotions have interpersonal fluid dynamics

Topdog vs underdog is a classic #gestalt polarity

Found an #embodiment note I made, prob 15 years ago "What do you do under strain?"

Found an #embodiment note I made, prob 15 years ago "What do you do under strain?"

I’ll take “Arrogantly Misunderstanding Nietzsche” for $200, Alex

People who tend to contain emotional experience will assume others enacting are impulsive, unconscious People who tend to enact emotional experience will assume others containing are armored, removed

People who tend to contain emotional experience will assume others enacting are impulsive, unconscious People who tend to enact emotional experience will assume others containing are armored, removed

My colleague David is an MD trained in Reichian therapy … from his substack open.substack.com/pub/davidhol...

Omg …The tough-as-nails, barn cat refugee, alpha mama cat … after 1.5 years here in cat heaven at our house … finally wants to sit on pillow on my lap!

Dems threatening to shut down the government … with people who WANT to shut down the government … will become another epic miscalculation

This reminds me of the agreement the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy required me & others to sign to present at their conference. They wanted to record & resell the sessions on their website, so they required “owning” the presentations. I was aghast by the objectification & refused.

“Neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa describes the brain as a highly networked, interconnected system that cannot be neatly decomposed into a set of independent parts. One can't point to the brain & say, “This is where emotion happens” (or any other mental faculty).” mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...

Movies that center on “male emotional pain” … w accuracy … - GlenGary GlenRoss - Sideways - About Schmidt - Brokeback Mountain - The Deer Hunter - Fight Club - Kramer vs Kramer (pls add to list)

Bro-Therapy recipe for wellness 1/ lift weights 2/ know your place 3/ get over it 4/ grow up

#tired “Client, you need a (modality) therapist who is (demographics)” #wired “Client, here’s how to interview potential therapists, be discerning & precise re: what you want from them …”

I find the “stay in your lane” and “accept the world as it is” brand of psychological advice to be repugnant Rest & ease at situationally wonderful, so not martyrdom those who advise these frameworks demonstrate “an inability to mentalize” outside their own experience, worldview

Mark Solms : Psychoanalysis :: Bessel van der Kolk : Somatic Trauma Work Both mine for neurotruths to validate preferred theories

Here's a link to the paper: Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Body Count Keeps the Score?

“case formulation” & “interpretation of projective dynamics” use this kind of intuition, and David (a Reichian trained MD) describes an #embodied POV extremely well open.substack.com/pub/davidhol...

From an #embodied POV the MAHA crowd celebrate & promote rigidity A rigid embodiment orients to non-rigidity as “weak” & “soft” … unable to become properly rigid Rigidity enables (seeks) intensity & projection more than any other embodiment style

Reichian "body armoring" is (unconsciously?) employing muscular tension to radically, immediately dampen affective experience ... to "block" experience .... the propensity to "armor" grows when one acquires "strong muscle" ... and/or uses that muscle w "high intensity" regularly

This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.

Reichian "body armoring" is (unconsciously?) employing muscular tension to radically, immediately dampen affective experience ... to "block" experience .... the propensity to "armor" grows when one acquires "strong muscle" ... and/or uses that muscle w "high intensity" regularly

This is how I would fly in my dreams as a child!

It’s gated, so who knows … but I bet study design has a lot more to do with these absurdly declarative results … than any real normative value comparison btwn “self-kindness” and pro social altruism. Obv BOTH are useful … but if “prescribed” both can def be less useful (or even harmful).

#ProTip These are the “check engine lights” for possible distortion in any relationship - they started it - it’s all their fault - they made me do it - they made me feel this way tHeY are tHE bAd oNe, nOt mE

the histories of psychoanalysis and Catholicism both have: a founder (Freud) numerous apostles (Anna, Melanie, Winnicott, etc) canon (Die Traumdeutung) mystics (Jung, Ferenzci) Protestants (Jung, Kohut) and dissidents claiming a more original discipleship (Lacan)

I’m finally realizing that when interact with psychoanalysts who proclaim certainties online that I’m really dealing with this dynamic they love to study & “quote scripture” as their way of “knowing God” but my interest in the “direct experience of God” w/ only mild interest in their “scripture”

My #sports #betting #ethics never ever bet against your own team, even when the spread is appealing Even the mention of an “appealing spread” against your team can bring you and your team #misfortune

Science is catching up to what #embodied practice has known all along 🎯 … interoception is dynamic, context driven, and malleable Also interoception is not “a state” as much as it is “many different states” … and these different states have EVERYTHING to do with how people experience their states

Big thumb theory? That’s opposable. www.zmescience.com/science/news...

Guy In Philosophy Class Needs To Shut The Fuck Up https://theonion.com/guy-in-philosophy-class-needs-to-shut-the-fuck-up-1819568055/

“Let’s self-censor in order to appease those who feel unjustly censored” #masochism

#theory those fearing “the end of expertise” believe THE WORLD is in peril b/c dangerous voices drowning out “reality” mistaking THEIR PLACE in world … w THE world … mistaking “reality” w their preferred subjective experience of reality a near universal #bias humans have

We conclude that the kinds of relations underpinning selfhood and conscious subjectivity may well be implementable in artificial systems...

#Game Rearrange the order of these words, based on your own self-identification … rank from high to low. I’ll start: Practitioner Theorist Artist Researcher Scientist Feel free to replace some or all too

Wake up, Science!

There are a lot of awesome boys that play sports with my kid whose names begin with the letter “c” … I think there are 4 of them, but maybe 6 … Cohen Cowan Cole Caden Cam I. Cannot. Keep. Track. (Yet)

I’ll play drums

Ironically, this also demonstrates the #embodied continuum of rigidity to porosity & highlights how Psychoanalysis THINKS there is a “best way” to embody so they must CATEGORIZE experience #embodiment KNOWS there are “many ways” to embody so they can actually ENGAGE experience

Psych theories are essentially an embodied “defense” against (unmanaged, unfiltered) direct experience But some really, truly believe their ideas … adored daily like beloved dolls … make them experts in direct experience But they often flee their experience, labeling thru their fav pedagogy

This (former) Texan is preparing - Texas brisket - Texas beans - Texas BBQ sauce

When Fascism came into power, most ppl were unprepared.They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, lust for power, disregard for … the weak, or yearning for submission. Only a few had been aware of the rumbling of the volcano preceding the outbreak - Erich Fromm

Dude stories, almost 100% of the time: "This one time this dude tried to one up me, but I embarrassed him SO BAD" Other dudes: "Dude!!!!"